Re: Encoding colour (from Re: Encoding italic)

2019-02-13 Thread Asmus Freytag via Unicode
On 2/13/2019 5:19 PM, Mark E. Shoulson via Unicode wrote: And again, all this is before we even consider other issues; I can't shake the feeling that there security nightmares lurking inside this idea. Default ignorables are bad juju. A./

Re: Encoding colour (from Re: Encoding italic)

2019-02-13 Thread Mark E. Shoulson via Unicode
On 2/12/19 12:05 PM, Kent Karlsson via Unicode wrote: Den 2019-02-12 03:20, skrev "Mark E. Shoulson via Unicode" : On 2/11/19 5:46 PM, Kent Karlsson via Unicode wrote: Continuing too look deep into the crystal ball, doing some more hand swirls... ... ... The scheme quoted (far) below (from

Re: Encoding colour (from Re: Encoding italic)

2019-02-13 Thread wjgo_10...@btinternet.com via Unicode
Philippe Verdy replied to my post, including quoting me. WJGO >> Thinking about this further, for this application copies of the glyphs could be redesigned so as to be square and could be emoji-style and the meanings of the characters specifying which colour component is to be set could be

Re: Encoding colour (from Re: Encoding italic)

2019-02-12 Thread Kent Karlsson via Unicode
Den 2019-02-12 03:20, skrev "Mark E. Shoulson via Unicode" : > On 2/11/19 5:46 PM, Kent Karlsson via Unicode wrote: >> Continuing too look deep into the crystal ball, doing some more >> hand swirls... >> >> ... >> >> ... >> >> The scheme quoted (far) below (from wjgo_10009), or anything like

Re: Encoding colour (from Re: Encoding italic)

2019-02-11 Thread Mark E. Shoulson via Unicode
On 2/11/19 5:46 PM, Kent Karlsson via Unicode wrote: Continuing too look deep into the crystal ball, doing some more hand swirls... ... ... The scheme quoted (far) below (from wjgo_10009), or anything like it, will NEVER be part of Unicode! Not in Unicode, but I have to say I'm intrigued by

Re: Encoding colour (from Re: Encoding italic)

2019-02-11 Thread Philippe Verdy via Unicode
Le dim. 10 févr. 2019 à 02:33, wjgo_10...@btinternet.com via Unicode < unicode@unicode.org> a écrit : > Previously I wrote: > > > A stateful method, though which might be useful for plain text streams > > in some applications, would be to encode as characters some of the > > glyphs for indicating

Encoding colour (from Re: Encoding italic)

2019-02-09 Thread wjgo_10...@btinternet.com via Unicode
Egmont Koblinger wrote: Should this scheme be extended for colors, too? What to do with the legacy 8/16 as well as the 256-color extensions wrt. the color palette? Should Unicode go into the business of defining a fixed set of colors, or allow to alter the palette colors using the OSC 4 and

Re: Encoding colour (from Re: Encoding italic)

2019-02-09 Thread wjgo_10...@btinternet.com via Unicode
Previously I wrote: A stateful method, though which might be useful for plain text streams in some applications, would be to encode as characters some of the glyphs for indicating colours and the digit characters to go with them from page 5 and from page 3 of the following publication.